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Zip The Pinhead

William Henry Johnson, born in Liberty Corners, NJ in 1842 performed with P.T. Barnum for many years. Because of a condition Johnson had which caused his cranium to drastically taper, he was named Zip the Pinhead.  To further accent his cranial abnormality, Barnum put him in a fuzzy costume and gelled his hair into a […]